Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-22
UNDER ARREST.
a NOBLE HANcHNAE SUED BY A
BUTCHER.
Charge Made that Re 10 Financially I'm.
barrassed and About to Return
10 France.

|
Antoine Manca de Vallambrosa, Mar
quis de Mores, son and citizen oil
france, a capitalistic ranchman OF Mon
tsna, and a son-in-law of Baron Won
Hoffman. the New York banker, was
arrested at Dill, Chandler & Seymour )
law Office at 81 Nassau street, yester-
day afternoon, on a warrant procured
by local butcher named Samuel
Grimshaw in n suit for S3O,OOJ
damages brought in the Supreme
Court for alleged fraud and for
endeayoring to leave the country
without paying debts alleged to be due
TO Mr.. Grimshaw. The papers were
prepared and the order Of arrest was
issued by Judge Donohue on Tuesday,
Int the sheriff's deputies couldn't find
the Marquis till yesterday. The bail,
which was fixed at 81, 800, was provided
five minutes after the warrant was
served. William Mertens. of l6 west
Thirty eighth street, qualifying in the
sum of $50, 000 in real estate, and Fred
erick Overlook, of 1856 Degraw street
Brooklyn, in the sum of $4,000 in
bonds and stocks.
The Marquis de Mores came to this
country some time ago and became
closely identified with large cattle
farms in the West. He bad plenty of
money to spend, and he was q promi-
Dent figure in the farWest ranch re-
eion. In June, 1883, some of his rivals
tried to Dust him from a part of his
lands, and there was wild fight be-
tween the sheriff and the others, during
which de Mores killed his man. But it
was shown that it was done ia self-de-
fence and he was acquitted in quick or
der. Some time ago the Marquis mar
Iied Baron Won Hoffiman's daughter,
and they lived in brilliant style in New
York city. The Marquis extended his
business operations in the slaughter Of
cattle and the sale of meat, and his
name was seen on every street in con
nection with "From-the- Ranch-to-the
Table schemes.
Mr.. Grimsbaw charges in his com
plant that be was in the meat business
in an extensive and profitable way be-
fore and up to February 3, 1887, and
was vice, president of the Retail
Butchers Protective Association. He
SAYS that de Mores came to him and re-
lated the details of a plan to form r
great corporation to be called "rhe
National Consumers Meat Company of
America, ;" to supply cattle from the
West, maintain retail-stOres all over the
city, sell beef and other food products
and dispose OF the waste materials, and
generally to carry on the business on
an immense scale by inducing retailers
to turn over their places of sale,
their customers andall to the company,
and hy inducing them and the pub
lie generally to become stockholders in
tie CORPORATION, which was to have a
capital of 2l0,000,O coo in ten-dollar
sharcs. And Mr.. Grimshaw complains
that TIE Marquis, being utterly msol-
vert, falsely represented to him that
lie was a men Of great wealth and pri-
waite financial resources; that he had
indCpcndent means in cash aud pro-
yUty above $780, goo, and that Syndi-
cate Of wealthy men in the United
States ard France were ready to back
him to the extent Of %, 800, 600; that
he Owned the Marquis dc Mores Com
panr, worth so, eco; that be had so,
Geo in the Western DressedBeef Com
Para sound company, with a crpi-
tai stock OF 500, 000-and that
be bad ranches in Montana worth
$4,000. All Of these claims, Mr..
Giimsbaw says, he believed, and be-
cause of the fattering prospects he
made agreements with de MoreS and
connected himself with the enterprise.
| he says that he performed his part and
sent ont circulars aud advertised gene
rally the plans of the company. He
made contracts with butchers and retail
dealers, solicited many to take shares in
the corporation, to transfer their stores
and tools for stock in the concern, ana
busted himself with the affairs Of de
Mores up to May Sth. BY that time,
he claims, he had put himself to per
sonal expense Of $4,000 in money aud
had rendered services worth $1,000.
He had made subsidiary contracts to
tie amount of 81, 200, and charges tina,
by his connection with De Mores he had
sustained damagest to the extent OF $40,
eco.
Then Mr.. Grimshaw accuses Marquis
de Mores of repudlating the contract
on the ground that the company had
rot vet been formed. and that he was
unable to bring about its creation. He
said. relates Mr.. Grimshaw, "that he
was utterly unable financially to carry
out any OF TIE terms of the agreement ;
that he was deeply in debt, aud t. a
gIoatcr extent than he could meet,
and that he was worthless and insol-
vent and unable to pay for the plaintiff S
tine end services" AS a result, Mr.
Grimshaw abandoned the Office, and was
forced out of the enterprise. He as
scitS that dc Morts misrepresented his
financial condition that he had only
| Sl5,O eco. and not $40, coo, in the West
,rn Drcssed-Heef Company, and has
-inCe opposed of that ; that the Mon
| tara Iapch was overyalued, and, be-
sides. was in his wiie's name, and that
| he National Consumers Meat Com
| pauy was head over heels in debt, and
| hat even its Office furniture was mort
Gagged. And Mr.. Grimshaw further
,laims that at the time when the Mar
0uis inyeigled him into the contracts
| lie was making last despairiDg effort
10 oxtricate himself from his financial
shafts. organizing the company with q
apital OF SIC, GOO, and that the
Enterprise has entirely collapsed aud
allen through.
Mr.. Grimshaw closes in this way
Il have also learned by trip TO Kan
sas City and the West recently made
that the Marquis is in bad financial odoI
and that the wealthy capitalists who
were, If ever, associated with him have
repudiated him, and he has not now,
nor has he had for a long time, any
financial backing. am informed that
lie is closing up his affairs to 60 to
France, and is disposing of all his pro
petty in this country. Two week:
agohe sent his wife and family to France,
assuring them that he would speedily
follow. Only last Saturday he dis
| uosed of one of his large meat
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